I do not know about hosts, but the reason I did not try storing more data are big contract fees (it wanted 1600 SC just to make a contract) and uncertainty about what happens after contract expires, 3 months really are not much. I actually do not have that much data (or rather, bandwidth for much data), but it would be nice to store encrypted backups in a decentralized way. Although one host-one guest is hardly decentralized now, is it?

@siastored@larsfloe in v1.2.0 it is still recommended that you keep the files locally. I understand that this defeats the purpose of using the cloud for most cases, but it's also the highest thing on our priority list.

If you need to keep your files locally, what's the point of having an option to 'download' files? Or more generally, what's the point of Sia?